With two ex-NS GP38-2's for power, the Huntington Local departs off the Running Track at HO Cabin bound for Russell Yard on a frigid February evening.

Mine run U01 is feet away from entering the control point at Marrowbone Junction passing an abandoned N&W boxcar as they finish their journey on the Lenore Branch. The rails the train are current... (more)

Ninety loads of coal off the Cumberland Valley Subdivision for Eastman Chemical Company's coal gasification plant roll through Natural Tunnel on the former Southern Appalachia District on CSX trac... (more)

Business as usual

Not much has changed at the Suncoke KRT transloading facility over the past year. With the steep decline of the coal industry, the yard once filled with cuts of ... (more)

Using trackage rights to return to home rails, the Norfolk Southern Operations, Awareness & Response Safety Train heads north across the North Fork of the Holston River just outside of Kingsport. ... (more)

Sunrise at the Training Tower.. Departing Russell Yard bound for Duke Energy's Marshall Steam Station near Sherrills Ford NC, CSX N758-01 passes through downtown Ashland with the CSX "... (more)

Kenova to Williamson local J14 pulls 100 loads of Morrison Knudson (according to reporting marks) from the SunCoke/KRT railyard on the banks of the Ohio River and splits traffic on US Route 60 on ... (more)

With empty coal hoppers for the classification yard at Russell in tow, CSX #86 begins the trek up the Big Sandy Valley from Shelby to Russell, passing the ex-C&O bracket signals at the West End of... (more)

Phoenixes of the Thoroughbred

Eastbound coal train NS 776 darts through the quiet town of Prichard, West Virginia, crossing over Elijah Creek with two of Norfolk Southern's newest re... (more)

When they say "break a leg" they didn't mean literally!"

With the conductor back on board, 61 loaded steel slab cars from the AK Steel Ashland Works begin their ni... (more)

After crossing over the Norfolk Southern, ex-N&W Clinch Valley District just east of town, CSX P001-19, the CSX Santa Train passes over the 4th Street underpass crawling into their next stop at St... (more)

Racks meet racks

Eastbound rack train 272 darts out of Coopers Tunnel just a few short miles from the once busy yard at Bluefield, passing train 83K and their train of previously sto... (more)

Huntington to Russell "Peddler" H779-23 brings two of CSX's most recently repainted locomotives and four cars down the Old Yard lead as the sun begins to fade away on a beautiful Novembe... (more)

OSCR 104, an ex-Frisco GP7 is tied up with a former Conrail/Great Miami ballast car and caboose on a brisk December weekend. Ohio South Central, sister company to the Indiana Eastern Railroad too... (more)

Eastbound coal for the Belews Creek Steam Station in North Carolina heads around the curve at Kenova with a smoking ACe and GE Tier 4 motor for power.